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JAY JG wrote: <snip>
User RfCs are a mess - in theory they are a platform for addressing and solving community issues. In practice, they are often venues for warring camps to air grievances, and for certain notorious individuals (who feel they don't get enough attention) to use as soapboxes for their own speechifying (i.e. yet another "outside view"). Obvious trolling is rarely addressed - the complainants outline their case, and a dozen or so regular editors vote in support. The troll provides a lengthy response, and three or four troll buddies/generall trolls/people with grievances against the complainant line up and vote in support of him, or add another "outside view" that has little to do with the case at hand, and is mostly about their own issues with the complainants. Nothing changes, and everyone goes away bitter.
The "toxicity" of AfD is nothing compared to what you find at RfC, and in the end it's often only a precursor to RfAR, just a perfunctory "tick-box" on the "attempted previous dispute resolution" form.
Having tried to cross AfD with RFC, I can only agree with you. Someone should take all the previous RFCs and publish an essay on Wikisource entitled "A study on groupthink in online communities".
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